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How to encourage the 5-7 million Iranian expat community with $2 trillion personal assets to return to their country

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.The primary problem is the mullah puppet regime brought into power by the USA/UK.Under this mullah regime an unprecedented number of Persians mostly middle class have left the country for foreign shores. Not since the Arab invasion of Persia in 638 AD have so many Persians left the country. What a huge tragedy created by the bastards in the USA/UK.

These 5-7 million Iranian expats are important for 2 reasons:(i) These Iranians are middle class, and a modern state is really about the middle class...their size and wealth. A rich modern country has a huge middle class, with the middle class essentially running the country..........a poor country has a very small middle class, with a few very rich people at the top which is what the Jews in London/NY desire for their respective countries.........and for their satellites. It is easier for the elite to manage illiterate people than middle class people.(ii) These expat Iranians of 5-7 million have assets worth $2 trillion from the sweat of their brow and the honest application of their skills. This sum is bigger than the current PPP GDP of Iran which is about $1.4 trillion.The donkey mullah puppets of Iran OBVIOUSLY don't want these expat Iranians back, otherwise they wouldn't have let them go in the first place. They constitute a legitimate challenge to the utterly absurdistan mullah rule in Iran.The mullahs in Persia inshallah will one day pass from the page of history, and the Iranian people will finally in the future learn to grapple with the snake like schemes against Persia from the USA/UK........and their dogs.

Iranian expats hard to woo as Western firms seek foothold in Iran

International
firms are hunting for Western-educated Iranians to take on executive
jobs in the Islamic Republic after the removal of most sanctions, but
are finding it hard to win them over.

. Interviews
with Western companies and headhunters as well as more than 20 Iranians
living abroad showed that expatriates are waiting to see how promised
reforms progress before deciding whether to go back, despite lucrative
job offers.
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Many in the diaspora
are put off by the poor quality of life and problems such as red tape, a
murky business culture, security issues, pollution and a lack of
international schools for their children. They are also concerned about
their rights and protections under the Islamic Republic's judicial
system.
. Their reluctance is making
life harder for conglomerates who need help to navigate Iran's complex
business world, train the local workforce and bridge a cultural and
linguistic gap with affluent local consumers in the country of 80
million.
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"This is the place where
an expat who holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration) and has
the right entrepreneurial attitude can make a real impact. Yet there's
never been a queue of expats applying for jobs here," Giuseppe Carella,
the Iran country chief of Swiss food group Nestlé, told Reuters.
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To
nurture future managers, Nestlé sends local graduates overseas for
several years, honing their skills away from Iran until they're ready to
go back, Carella said.
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Expats remain a tiny minority of the about 1,000 employees at the firm's subsidiary in Iran, 15 years after its launch.
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President
Hassan Rouhani met Iranian expatriates in New York last September and
urged them to re-engage with Iran, weeks after Tehran agreed to curb its
nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of nuclear-related
sanctions.
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During a visit to
Singapore this month, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iranian
nationals living abroad were "the best bridges for dialogue of cultures
and civilizations".
. MANY MISGIVINGS.
The
Iranian diaspora is estimated by Iranian officials at between 5 and 7
million people, mostly living in North America, Europe and the Gulf.
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Some, like Paniz Golkar, a 26-year-old dual national of Iran and Canada, are tempted to return.
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"I
feel it's my responsibility to go back. Iran needs professionals from
all fields," said Golkar, who is due to finish her studies at the
Southern California Institute of Architecture in April. "It will be
challenging to prove myself as a woman in business but there are more
career opportunities in Iran than anywhere else.
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"A lot of Iranians in California are talking about moving back, it's an option we can't ignore," she said.
. But there are many challenges to consider..
Some
expatriates whose families left Iran before or soon after the 1979
revolution are skeptical about career prospects and worry that Tehran's
refusal to recognize their dual citizenship status makes them vulnerable
to arbitrary arrest.
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Security forces
have arrested some dual nationals who hold U.S. and European passports
in recent years on unspecified national security charges.
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Others
hesitate because of concerns over the bureaucratic regime, the lower
standard of living in traffic-clogged Tehran and restrictions enforced
by the "morality police" on Islamic dress and behavior codes.
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British-Iranian
Ali Tehrani, 24, tried to relocate to Iran last October but was worn
down by the challenge of securing permits and licenses and an exemption
from military service, which in Iran is compulsory and lasts 24 months.
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"I quickly realized I didn't have the skill sets to navigate the bureaucracy in Iran," he said.
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A
graduate of University College London who founded a human resources
tech firm, KeyPursuit.com, he had hoped to launch an Internet start-up
in Iran focusing on online payments. He abandoned the project after
three months.
. A 2016 survey of 230
cities by consultant Mercer ranked Tehran 203rd for quality of living,
worse than Pakistan's Islamabad and Kenya's Nairobi..

Home
to around 14 million people, Tehran's metropolitan area is often
blanketed in smog and schools are frequently shut because air pollution
keeps reaching alarming levels.
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Several
Iranians based in the Gulf told Reuters that Western firms wanted to
recruit them as they don't trust the local workforce because of concerns
about corruption and breaches of security and intellectual property
rights.
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"Loyalty remains one of the
main issues when it comes to local staff," said a Tehran-based
management consultant who requested anonymity. "Compensation is so low
that people tend to have two or three different jobs, without any
serious full-time commitment."
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Iran ranked 130th out of 168 countries on Transparency International's 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index.
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After
watching many swings of the political pendulum in recent years,
Iranians abroad also worry that the economic reforms led by President
Rouhani may ultimately be blocked.
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Rouhani
wants to modernize the economy with the help of foreign investment and
wealthy rich expats owning assets worth an estimated $2 trillion. Gains
by allies in parliamentary elections are expected to help him push
through the reforms.
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But hardline
allies of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said this month that
Western business delegations have failed to deliver any benefit to
Iran's economy.

COMPETITION TO WOO DIASPORA

Aware
of expats' reservations, foreign firms are trying to woo Western
residents with packages that can include high pay, family expenses and
private school fees, and are billed as offering a faster career path
than in the West.
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A
Western-educated Iranian can earn in excess of $15,000 a month, up to
about $250,000 a year, in a senior executive role at a Western
conglomerate in Iran, several headhunters and executives told Reuters.
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For the same job at an Iranian firm, they said, locals would earn around $5,000 a month, up to about $100,000 a year.
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This
compares to a minimum monthly wage for local workers of $225, according
to a 2015 study by Tehran-based consultancy REF Group.
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Former
science and technology minister Reza Faraji Dana said in 2014 about
150,000 of Iran's "highly talented people" were leaving annually,
costing the economy as much as $150 billion a year.
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"For
years Iran has had a brain-drain problem. Now people holding a Western
degree can get high-profile jobs and move up through the ranks (in Iran)
at a much faster pace than anywhere else," said Sarmad Afarinesh, an
Austrian-educated Iranian whose Vienna-based company, Arhax Consulting,
helps multinational firms enter Iran.
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Consultants
who cater to Western conglomerates seeking access to Iran -- one
business that is growing fast across all sectors -- can earn up to
$10,000 a month without relocating permanently, headhunters say.
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Reza
Joorabchi, a 35-year-old Iranian-Canadian who left Iran at the age of
six months, moved back to Tehran in November to help Western firms crack
the market.
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"Everybody is
surprised that I've lasted for more than two months. The quality of
living is so poor that many expats give up almost immediately," he said.
"You need to have a thick skin to survive."
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Joorabchi
said foreign companies must now distinguish between expats willing to
live in Iran and those who are ready only to travel there.
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Many executives prefer to be based in Dubai where international companies have their Middle East headquarters.
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Dubai-based
executive search firm Wise&Miller, which has placed senior managers
at international companies such as Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever Plc,
Heineken and Philips in the Middle East, is building a database of
foreign-educated Iranians willing to relocate.
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It
is "an increasingly crowded market," according to the company's
co-founder, Marc Mulder, who says he approaches dozens of candidates
each week using social media to establish a connection with Iranian
professionals around the world.
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Hamid
Biglari, a former Citigroup vice-chairman and financier with emerging
market expertise now also advising investors on Iran, said the country
needs to come up with incentives for people of Iranian origin to come
back, such as issuing identification cards that would allow them to
travel to and invest in Iran without a visa or dual citizenship.
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"More
needs to be done to persuade the Iranian diaspora to re-engage with
their land of origin," said Biglari, who left Iran in 1977.
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Their
role could be similar to that of Indian expatriates in the United
States who helped make India a global technology powerhouse, he said.
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"Iranians abroad can provide capital, knowledge and business connections, all of which are vital to rebuild the country."
. (Additional reporting by Sam Wilkin in Dubai, editing by Sinead Cruise, Timothy Heritage and Sonya Hepinstall)

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